[OD34] Municipal waste disposal (landfiling)
Key message
In Slovenia, the share of landfilled municipal waste in 2022, based on all generated municipal waste, was 8.8% or slightly more than 90,000 tonnes. Thus the goal of reducing the amount of municipal waste landfilled to 10% or less by weight of all generated municipal waste by 2035 has already been achieved. The waste was landfilled at 9 non-hazardous waste landfills.
The share of landfilled municipal waste at the EU level in 2022 was 23% of generated municipal waste. The countries in which more than half of generated municipal waste was landfilled include Malta, Romania, Cyprus, Croatia, Hungary, Portugal and Bulgaria.
Charts
Statistical office (administrative source: ARSO), Slovenian Environment Agency (2024)
| generated[1.000t] | collected separately[1.000t] | disposed[1.000t] | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1052.26 | 762.94 | 107.63 |
| 2020 | 1024.08 | 739.46 | 68.59 |
| 2021 | 1077.14 | 795.13 | 65.53 |
| 2022 | 1033.17 | 751.65 | 90.41 |
ARSO-GURS (2024)
Eurostat ((1) Eurostat estimate, (2) estimate, (3) no data, (4) temporary data) (2024)
| 2022[%] | |
|---|---|
| EU (1) | 23 |
| Malta | 83 |
| Romania | 74 |
| Cyprus (4) | 59 |
| Croatia | 56 |
| Hungary | 55 |
| Portugal | 55 |
| Bulgaria | 54 |
| Spain (4) | 50 |
| Latvia | 44 |
| Slovakia | 39 |
| Poland | 38 |
| France (2)(4) | 23 |
| Italy | 18 |
| Lithuania | 14 |
| Estonia | 13 |
| Slovenia | 8 |
| Luxembourg | 4 |
| Austria | 2 |
| Denmark | 2 |
| Netherlands (4) | 1 |
| Germany (1)(4) | 1 |
| Sweden (2) | 1 |
| Finland | 0 |
| Belgium | 0 |
| Greece (3) | |
| Czechia (3) | |
| Ireland (3) |